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Hosp. univ. Granada, serv. dermatología, Granada 18002, ESPAGNE

Résumé / Abstract

We describe ten cases of traumatic self-induced onichopathy. The lesions were caused by rubbing the proximal zone of the finfernails -in most cases of the thumbnails -with the distal edge of the contralateral fingernail or thumbnail. The lesions were produced compulsively and unconsciously, and treatment of the habit or tic led to the regression of the ungueal alterations